# CVE-2026-3907: Hostel \<= 1.1.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wphostel-book' Shortcode

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-10 · Updated: 2026-07-10

## Affected

- prasunsen Hostel: through 1.1.7

## Description

The Hostel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wphostel-book' shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.1.7. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. Specifically, the second shortcode attribute (used as button text) is passed to the `$text` variable without sanitization at line 79 and then output directly into an HTML `value` attribute at line 91 without `esc_attr()` or any other escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on prasunsen Hostel, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30339c0d-6632-4073-b4d5-3bb4a5b8a58d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/tags/1.1.6/models/hostel.php#L195
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/trunk/controllers/shortcodes.php#L91
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/tags/1.1.6/controllers/shortcodes.php#L91
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/trunk/controllers/shortcodes.php#L79
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/tags/1.1.6/controllers/shortcodes.php#L79
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/trunk/models/hostel.php#L195
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3480942%40hostel&new=3480942%40hostel

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